English-Portuguese translations for decapitation

• decapitação
  O Parlamento Europeu não pode permitir a decapitação da indústria açucareira europeia. The European Parliament cannot allow the decapitation of the European sugar industry.
  Chegaramnos igualmente relatórios confrangedores de execuções em lugares públicos e de inúmeros casos de tortura, apedrejamento, decapitação e amputação.We have also had distressing reports of public executions, torture, stoning, decapitation and amputation.
  É inadmissível que se aceitem, tanto nos nossos países como em qualquer parte do mundo, práticas arcaicas e desumanas como a excisão, os crimes de honra, a lapidação e a decapitação. It is intolerable that, in our countries and throughout the world, archaic and inhumane practices such as excision, honour crimes, stoning and decapitation should be accepted.

Definition of decapitation

• Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating
• The ousting or destruction of the ruling body of a government or other organization
• The unseating of a senior politician

Examples

• If the headsmans axe was sharp and his aim was true, decapitation was a quick and relatively painless form of death
• A decapitation strike carried out by drone killed many of the countrys senior generals.
• The decapitation of the Foreign Secretary was a significant publicity coup for the opposition.

Related words

• decapitate
• decapitated
• decapitator
• internal decapitation
• to decapitate